New York – Sidley is pleased to announce that David Grubman and Adam Cromie have joined Sidley’s M&A practice as partners in the New York office. Mr. Grubman joins from Jones Day, where he was M&A Chair for the Americas for the firm’s corporate practice. He will be global co-leader of Sidley’s M&A practice. Mr. Cromie joins from Simpson Thacher, where he was an M&A partner. He worked with Mr. Grubman previously for seven years.
Mr. Grubman advises companies in a broad range of complex and bet-the-company transactions, including takeover defense, proxy contests, and corporate governance matters. He is widely recognized as a leading M&A lawyer in the United States and globally.
Mr. Cromie’s practice focuses on advising public and private companies and boards of directors across a variety of M&A transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and majority and minority investments. He advises on matters across a broad range of industries, including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and sports and entertainment. Prior to joining private practice, Mr. Cromie was an executive for Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals.
“We are excited to welcome Dave and Adam to the Sidley family. They are very familiar to our partners in New York and other offices, so we expect an easy integration of their clients,” said Yvette Ostolaza, Chair of Sidley’s Management Committee. “Sidley has been active in identifying new talent who represent existing clients across all of our practices. We will continue to grow in 2025 by attracting other legal industry leaders and offering them the tools for success.”
“Dave and Adam have previously worked together on many matters and achieved great results for their clients,” said Brian Fahrney, Chair-elect of Sidley’s Executive Committee and Global co-leader of Sidley’s M&A and Private Equity practice group. “We think they will be great additions to our already strong bench of public company lawyers. Working with our M&A team and other teams across the firm, they will be able to offer best in class service to their clients.”
The firm’s preeminent global M&A and Private Equity practice has more than 500 lawyers who are engaged in the full spectrum of public and private mergers and acquisitions as well as private equity transactions across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, energy, life sciences, sports, entertainment, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, transportation and logistics, infrastructure, technology, media and telecoms, financial services and insurance, and metals and mining.
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